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The Story of the Kelly Gang

by: Charles Tait

Publication date: 1906

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Topics: Australia, Bushrangers, Ned Kelly, Silent Film, Early Features, Lost Films, Fragments

Publisher: Johnson and Gibson

Item Size: 105.6M

Some surviving fragments of the world's first feature length narrative film. Heavily decomposed

What the posters said:
"A thrilling moving picture from start to finish"
"The Most Sensational, The Most Thrilling and Interesting LIVING PICTURES EVER TAKEN."

Written and Directed by Charles Tait 1868-1933

Released:
December 1906 (Australia)
January 1908 (Britain)
1910 (USA)

Special contents of this edition copyright 2009 Shane I Sullivan. Permission to use these items is granted under creative commons licence.

Contact Information: The Video Cellar

Addeddate: 2009-11-06 03:51:17

Color: B/W

Ia_orig__runtime: 3 minutes 57 seconds

Identifier: TheStoryOfTheKellyGang-FragmentsFromTheFinalReel

Run time: 3:57

Sound: Silent

Year: 1906

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Reviewer: Jeanne James - - May 16, 2023
Subject: Amazing.

I've just discovered this amazing site. To see this footage only 26 years after the actuality, brings it all to life.
This site must be used by the film industry, it's absolute goldmine of filmic history.

Reviewer: straingedays - - March 11, 2018
Subject: Legends & Truths

Now I know my 1910 Story of the Kelly Gang. at the Olympia Theatre, is a movie poster, Thank You !!!
Also, this must be the film where Ned Kelly's mother was invited to the premier and refused too attended (for obvious reasons).

Reviewer: simplertimes - - October 22, 2012
Subject: NED KELLY

What a wonderful thing to be able to view this footage.Great Stuff, Thankyou !!!!

Reviewer: Mehoo - - June 12, 2012
Subject: Amazing

Despite the horrid condition of the film, this has to be one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in a video. Now all I have to do is watch the whole movie.

Reviewer: TeddyMafia - - January 23, 2011
Subject: We need more Aussie Public Domain material..

I cannot tell you how happy I am to stumble across this fine piece of work from Australia. I would like to see a lot more material made in Australia posted on archive.org.. Thank you for submitting this piece..

Reviewer: jonc - - November 3, 2010
Subject: Great find

This would seem to be beyond restoration, but who knows? Technology can do some amazing things. It's great to see what has survived of it. This could be valuable down the line, as the original film slowly continues to decay.

Reviewer: Junter - - November 1, 2010
Subject: Fillmore East

Great movie but I thought I was at the Fillmore East with that lightshow.great to see this footage from Australia.Thanks Gary

Reviewer: Classic_TV_and_Radio_Fan - - March 1, 2010
Subject: Heavily decomposed, but worth seeing

So little exists of early Australian cinema, that those interested in the subject cannot be picky. This footage here is is poor shape, but watchable, even scary, and the music suits the upload well (something that cannot be said about all silent films on the Internet Archive).
"A thrilling moving picture from start to finish" was probably utterly true, judging by those amazing bits of footage from the feature-movie.

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